On powerpc64-linux systems that run on IBM servers, the 32-bit software
emulation library is not built with the Red Hat and SUSE distributions, but the
FSF sources still list it as a multilib. This patch adds a configuration
option (--disable-ppc64-swfloat) to disable building this library.
We've
On Wed, 23 May 2012, Michael Meissner wrote:
> An alternative would be for the powerpc64-linux case, should we just delete
> the
> software floating emulation multilib and stop using the -mstrict-align, since
> Linux only runs in big endian mode. The software emulation multilib would be
> built
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 10:59:10PM +, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2012, Michael Meissner wrote:
>
> > An alternative would be for the powerpc64-linux case, should we just delete
> > the
> > software floating emulation multilib and stop using the -mstrict-align,
> > since
> > Linu
On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Michael Meissner
wrote:
> On powerpc64-linux systems that run on IBM servers, the 32-bit software
> emulation library is not built with the Red Hat and SUSE distributions, but
> the
> FSF sources still list it as a multilib. This patch adds a configuration
> opti
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 01:45:41PM -0400, Michael Meissner wrote:
> This alternative patch just disables building the 32-bit softfloat multlib,
> and
> removes the -mstrict-align in the powerpc64-linux case.
>
> I have bootstrapped it and had no regressions.
>
> David, which patch do you prefer?
On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 07:11:53PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 6:36 PM, Michael Meissner
> wrote:
> > On powerpc64-linux systems that run on IBM servers, the 32-bit software
> > emulation library is not built with the Red Hat and SUSE distributions, but
> > the
> > FSF
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:22 AM, Michael Meissner
wrote:
> Yes, the second patch just does not build the library or use the
> -mstrict-align
> option. It is much simpler, but there may be somebody out there that depends
> on the functionality. I really don't know, one way or the other.
Mike,
